Gretchen Young

Gretchen Young is Vice President, Executive Editor at Grand Central Publishing. She has edited close to 60 New York Times Bestsellers, including twelve books with Caroline Kennedy, and Elizabeth Alexander’s “The Light of the World,” which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Young has worked with a diverse group of authors, including: George Carlin, Ethan Hawke, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Congressman John Lewis, Google’s Eric Schmidt, MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Oscar Hijuelos. She previously spent over fifteen years at Hyperion where she also launched the ESPN imprint and developed projects with the ABC Television Group.